Please stop posting 'Pirate speak' in serious, we have asked nicely more than once, I'm going to just start deleting the posts. Mods have to read it and most of them have lives outside this place it really slows us down; you have whole sections devoted to it. I am through trying to puzzle out what the hell is being said. Sin. WoE.

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I came across an article sometime last year so the details are sketchy .A study concerned human perception are something within that realm .The researchers displayed text that was missing all the vowels and possibly other letters .

They found that only 40% of test subjects were able to read it without a struggle , the other 60% took forever to read the thing , or saw " chicken scratch " , it might as well be a foreign language.It seems the former group's brains somehow simply filled in the blanks for them as they read the text .

Mad Willyum Bonney wrote:I came across an article sometime last year so the details are sketchy .A study concerned human perception are something within that realm .The researchers displayed text that was missing all the vowels and possibly other letters .

They found that only 40% of test subjects were able to read it without a struggle , the other 60% took forever to read the thing , or saw " chicken scratch " , it might as well be a foreign language.It seems the former group's brains somehow simply filled in the blanks for them as they read the text .

So PG , give these folks a break , they are of the 60% .

You aren't removing the vowels, you are entirely changing the spelling and syntax.

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Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Mad Willyum Bonney wrote:I came across an article sometime last year so the details are sketchy .A study concerned human perception are something within that realm .The researchers displayed text that was missing all the vowels and possibly other letters .

They found that only 40% of test subjects were able to read it without a struggle , the other 60% took forever to read the thing , or saw " chicken scratch " , it might as well be a foreign language.It seems the former group's brains somehow simply filled in the blanks for them as they read the text .

So PG , give these folks a break , they are of the 60% .

You aren't removing the vowels, you are entirely changing the spelling and syntax.

I agr. Thr shld b lss f ths crp tlk sppsd 2 lk lk txt tlk?

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Mad Willyum Bonney wrote:I came across an article sometime last year so the details are sketchy .A study concerned human perception are something within that realm .The researchers displayed text that was missing all the vowels and possibly other letters .

They found that only 40% of test subjects were able to read it without a struggle , the other 60% took forever to read the thing , or saw " chicken scratch " , it might as well be a foreign language.It seems the former group's brains somehow simply filled in the blanks for them as they read the text .

So PG , give these folks a break , they are of the 60% .

You aren't removing the vowels, you are entirely changing the spelling and syntax.

I agr. Thr shld b lss f ths crp tlk sppsd 2 lk lk txt tlk?

I'd personally like to see all communication in the serious threads limited to the proper syntax and grammar and spelling of whatever language we are speaking.

Misc. sections, do whatever, but the serious sections need to be serious.

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, olny taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pcleas. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by ilstef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I've had to read, consider, and act on people's writing throughout my career. If the majority of people committing their thoughts to paper or pixels could achieve this level of grammar and spelling, I would be delirious with joy!

PantyGnawer wrote:Can we cut out sarcasm, euphanism, metaphor, and analogy as well because those really tend to confuse me as well?

I'm with you on everything but the euphanism, PG. There's just not enough euphanism on these boards, serious sections or otherwise...

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Mad Willyum Bonney wrote:I came across an article sometime last year so the details are sketchy .A study concerned human perception are something within that realm .The researchers displayed text that was missing all the vowels and possibly other letters .

They found that only 40% of test subjects were able to read it without a struggle , the other 60% took forever to read the thing , or saw " chicken scratch " , it might as well be a foreign language.It seems the former group's brains somehow simply filled in the blanks for them as they read the text .

So PG , give these folks a break , they are of the 60% .

You aren't removing the vowels, you are entirely changing the spelling and syntax.